By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey’s back with her longest holiday gift list ever at 102 of her favourite things. Ranging in price from free (downloads of her Super Soul Conversations podcast) to $2,000 (for a 55-inch TV that morphs into a painting), Winfrey’s annual […]
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By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows. Roughly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides and those have been increasing for about 10 years. Until […]
By Ben Walker The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — From laughingstock to lift off. George Springer and the Houston Astros rocketed to the top of the baseball galaxy Wednesday night, winning the first World Series championship in franchise history by romping past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7. […]
By Ashraf Khalil The Associated Press WASHINGTON — After years of public controversy and debate, work is finally beginning Thursday on a massive memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower. A groundbreaking ceremony will mark the start of the project, which has been plagued for years by a bitter running fight over […]
The Associated Press NETTUNO, Italy — Pope Francis is underlining the price of war, visiting an American military cemetery and the site of a Nazi massacre in Rome. Francis said the visits Thursday, which mark All Souls’ Day, show that “wars produce nothing more than cemeteries and death. That is […]
By Jon Gambrell The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The CIA’s release of documents seized during the 2011 raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has again raised questions about Iran’s support of the extremist network leading up to the Sept. 11 terror attacks. U.S. intelligence officials […]
By Brian Rohan The Associated Press CAIRO — Scientists have found a hidden chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, the first such discovery in the structure since the 19th century and one likely to spark a new surge of interest in the pharaohs. In an article published in the […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Make-ahead meals and cooking for the freezer, once relegated to suburban supermoms who had it more together than the rest of us, are now trendy with the healthy-eating crowd. Sure, we call it “meal prep” but it’s pretty much the same thing: Make good […]
By Mary Clare Jalonick And Eric Tucker The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In three exhaustive hearings this week, executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google acknowledged that their platforms were used by Russia to try and create division over such disparate issues as immigration, gun control and politics. House investigators released […]
Nicholas Donaldson Students at Robert Moore School, like many youths across the district, showed off their creative side by dressing up in costumes this morning ranging from scary to silly in honour of Hallowe’en. “Haunted” library tours, a pumpkin-carving contest, a costume contest, and dance-off also were held at the […]
DESJARLAIS-Born to Harriette Wagner and Michael Desjarlais, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Elena Sophia Patricia, weighing 8 lbs 14 oz on October 14, 2017 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
